reading file
 

Actually i want to use the files in current directory to do wc on each file. I tried wc -wl * . But it prints out the subdirectories and files too. So i want to use for loop . but havent used it before. so if someone can help me with that. how can i read files from current working directory in for loop.?
-Thanks

exactly What do you want to do?

can you just explain it properly?

I guess following command will do you work:-

Terminal$ wc -wl *.*

hope it helps you.

That will only work with files that have file extensions.
I recommend to use find for this problemShort explanation: -type f makes find to only look for files and not directories, -maxdepth 1 prevents to search in subdirectories, the -exec option specifies which command to run when an appropriate file is found.
For more info about the find command have a look at

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